yarn global add not symlinking binaries to $(yarn global bin)

[danvk]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

I want to report a bug.

What is the current behavior?

$ yarn global add topojson
...
success Installed "topojson@3.0.2" with binaries:
      - geo2topo
      - toposimplify
      - topo2geo
      - topomerge
      - topoquantize
✨  Done in 2.79s.

$ yarn global bin
/usr/local/bin

$ ls /usr/local/bin/topo2geo
ls: /usr/local/bin/topo2geo: No such file or directory

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

(see above)

What is the expected behavior?

I'd expect topo2geo to be available in yarn global bin, i.e. /usr/local/bin.

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.

$ yarn --version
1.12.1

$ node --version
v11.0.0

I'm on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65).

Running with yarn --verbose global add topojson, I see the following:

verbose 6.392 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/.bin/geo2topo" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/node_modules/topojson-server/bin/geo2topo".
verbose 6.392 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/.bin/topo2geo" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/node_modules/topojson-client/bin/topo2geo".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/.bin/topomerge" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/node_modules/topojson-client/bin/topomerge".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/.bin/topoquantize" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/node_modules/topojson-client/bin/topoquantize".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/.bin/toposimplify" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson/node_modules/topojson-simplify/bin/toposimplify".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-server/.bin/geo2topo" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-server/bin/geo2topo".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-simplify/.bin/toposimplify" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-simplify/bin/toposimplify".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-client/.bin/topo2geo" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-client/bin/topo2geo".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-client/.bin/topomerge" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-client/bin/topomerge".
verbose 6.393 Creating symlink at "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-client/.bin/topoquantize" to "/Users/danvk/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/topojson-client/bin/topoquantize".

so the symlinks are being created, just not in a useful place.

[xcash]

A workaround is to use sudo yarn global ...
In Jul 2019 this problem is still present and the output is misleading.